CCENT/CCNA ICND1 100-101 Official Cert Guide

The Historical Reasons for IPv6

In the last 40 years, the Internet has gone from its infancy to being a huge influence in the world. It first grew through research at universities, from the ARPANET beginnings of the Internet in the late 1960s into the 1970s. The Internet kept growing fast in the 1980s, with the Internet’s fast growth still primarily driven by research and the universities that joined in that research. By the early 1990s, the Internet began to transform to allow commerce, allowing people to sell services and products over the Internet, which drove yet another steep spike upward in the growth of the Internet. Figure 25-1 shows some of these major milestones.

Figure 25-1 Some Major Events in the Growth of the Internet

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